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Dr Ms Kat

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13% complete! Dr Ms Kat has read 7 of 52 books.

Neal Stephenson: Polostan (2020, HarperCollins Publishers)

The first installment in Neal Stephenson’s Light cycle, Polostan follows the early life of the …

Look, I know some people have trouble with Stephenson's writing, but he unfailingly hooks me in and this was no exception. This book didn't even suffer from the Seveneves problem (the final third of the book being far too long and unecessary), it was short and compact, and I'm already hanging out for the second book.

Neal Stephenson: Polostan (2020, HarperCollins Publishers)

The first installment in Neal Stephenson’s Light cycle, Polostan follows the early life of the …

I have a suspicion that Stephenson uses the word "lozenge" in every book. I have just encountered this book's usage ("lozengey").

Charlie Jane Anders, Annalee Newitz, Cory Doctorow (Duplicate), Hannu Rajaniemi, Neil Gaiman, Kameron Hurley, Ramez Naam, Madeline Ashby, Lauren Beukes, David Brin, Pat Cadigan, Paolo Bacigalupi, Lewis Shiner, James Patrick Kelly, Rudy Rucker, Charles Yu, Dave Maass, Paul Ford, SL Grey, Eileen Gunn, Charles Human, Carolyn Jewel, Bruce Sterling: Pwning Tomorrow (EBook, 2016, Electronic Frontier Foundation)

As part of EFF’s 25th Anniversary celebrations, we are releasing “Pwning Tomorrow: Stories from the …

This was a mixed bag. The Cory Doctorow story was hella depressing. There was randomly a paranormal romance novella (because the author was a plaintiff in an EFF-backed case, I think). The stories were fine but not an especially cohesive collection.

Sunyi Dean: The Book Eaters (Hardcover, 2022, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)

Truth is found between the stories we're fed and the stories we hunger for.

I had no idea what this was about when I started it, I don't quite know what box to put it in. Maybe magical realism, light horror, fairy tale mashup? Regardless, I really enjoyed it. A different take on... maybe vampires? Who eat books instead of human blood? (I don't think that's a spoiler, it's literally the title of the book).